FACT AND RUMOR.

Tomorrow the recess begins.

Lampoon will be out next Thursday.

There will be no recitation in Chemistry 1 next week.

The nine will probably play the Athletics of Brooklyn on the 7th or 8th.

A certain elective in English rejoiced in the attendance of one student yesterday.

The committee of fifty are requested to return the petitions furnished them today.

The Dartmouth nine plays the Bostons in Boston Friday and Saturday of this week.

Memorial is now using water from the well, as that furnished by the city is unfit for use.

Professor Child deserves commendation for his efforts to secure good ventilation in his classroom.

The next issue of the Herald will be one week from tomorrow, on Wednesday, April 12th.

There will be a game of base-ball on Fast Day between the Riverside and University Press. All are invited.

Dr. Sargent lectures in Sever 11 this afternoon at 2 P. M., on "The Limit of Development and the Result of Over-training."

Moses King will shortly publish a volume of poems by a prominent member of '84, as soon as the author has received a sufficient number of subscriptions.

The sophomore class dinner will be Saturday, April 22, at 7 P. M., at the Revere House. Price, $1.50. Book at Bartlett's for signatures after the vacation.

The examinations in Professor Torrey's graduate courses in history will take place as follows: - b., Wednesday, June 14, 10 A. M., in U. 20; c., Tuesday, June 6, 9 A. M., in U. 20.

Mr. Drennan conducted the services at morning prayers yesterday, owing to the late arrival of Professor Everett, who entered the chapel just as Mr. Drennan, after a short wait, had proceeded to take charge.

The photographers were at work last week taking views about college for the full-page heliotype illustrations in the new edition of Moses King's "Harvard and its Surroundings," which will probably appear next month.

PARLOR BED. PAINE'S new parlor bed is very convenient. A number of very fine dressing case beds are now being placed in the warerooms at the manufactory, 114 Friend street, Boston.